Utilizing the Cloud to Store Hijacked Camera Images

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Utilizing the Cloud to Store Hijacked Camera Images
Mobile devices implementing Android operating systems inherently encourage opportunities to create and implement malicious software. This opportunity increases as dissemination of the Android OS to standalone devices, such as cameras, increases. The problem intensifies when these devices utilize cloud storage service capabilities. Previous security and forensics research is focused on Android malware detection, data leakage and operating system modifications. In this research, malware was developed and implemented on a camera running an Android Operating System. The execution of this malware successfully transferred images to a secondary cloud location without notifying the user about the data transfer or raising noticeable indicators with an industry accepted mobile device analysis toolkit. The research contribution is an initial empirical analysis of the viability of software to divert an image and store it in a secondary cloud storage environment without alerting digital forensics software about the malicious nature of the malware.